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Artist: Ken Hodges Galileo Probe descending into Jupiters Atmosphere shows heat shield separation with parachute deployed, as it "hangs on the shrouds" and samples the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system and key moment in the flight of Galileo. The probe will enter the sunlit side of Jupiter's atmosphere and provide the first direct sampling of the planet's atmosphere. Jet Propulsion Laboratory has over-all management responsibility for Galileo. NASA's Ames Research... Topics: What -- Galileo, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)

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It all started on May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. Coming just three weeks after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Kennedy's bold challenge set the nation on a journey unlike any before in human history. Eight years of hard work by thousands of Americans came to fruition on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar module and took... Topics: Who -- Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Who -- Neil A. Armstrong, What -- Moon, What -- Mercury, What --... Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/470923main_69-HC-898[1]_full.jpg

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This is a single crystal, about 6 cm tall, purity grade 99.99% that NASA Ames Research Center's Friedemann Freund grew in the early 1980s. There are tiny bubbles in the center of this large crystal that Freund infused into the crystal. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center Topics: Crystal, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC) Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/crystal.html

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In January 2011, researchers from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif. tested a future aircraft concept model. The model, called AMELIA (Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Aeroacoustics), has a 10-foot wing span and is 1/13th scale. It was tested in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex. AMELIA was designed as a 100-passenger regional cruise efficient, short takeoff and landing airliner. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Dominic Hart Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2012/iotw/cal_poly_amelia_model.html

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Schilieren photograph of an F11F-1 Tiger at Mach 1.4 in the 1-foot by 3-foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames. This image was taken in February 1965. Image source: NASA Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/tiger_at_mach_1.html

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Photographer: N/A Pioneer F/G Plaque: Pioneer 10 the first spacecraft to leave our solar system carries a message to other worlds. The plaque was designed by Drs. Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, the artwork was prepared by Linda Salzman Sagan.favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Topic: What -- Pioneer 10

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Yuri's night will be at NASA Ames Research Center on April 10, 2010. This guest came in costume to a previous Yuri's night event. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / Paul Langston Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/silver_guy.html

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Photographer: JPL This is a computer-generated perspective rendering of one of the caldera-like depressions on Triton, as it would appear if viewed from the northeast. The image was obtained by geometrically reprojecting part of a Voyager high-resolution frame taken Aug. 24, 1989, when the spacecraft was about 181,800 km (112,900 miles) from Triton. Information about surface topography needed to generate the oblique view was obtained from the same image by the technique called photoclinometry... Topics: What -- Voyager, What -- Sun, What -- Crater

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Nineteen teams pushed their robot competitors to the limit, and three teams claimed a total of ,000 in NASA prizes at this year's Regolith Excavation Challenge on Oct. 17-18. This is the first time in the competition's three-year history that any team qualified for a cash prize, the largest NASA has awarded to date. After two days of intense competition hosted at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., organizers conferred first place prize of ,000 to Paul's Robotics of Worcester,... Topics: What -- Terra, What -- Moon, What -- REX, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Little Rock Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/regolith3.html

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This image of candidate craters is based on current information about the age, depth and structure of the selected craters. Approximately 30 days before impact, the LCROSS science team will announce the selection of the final impact crater. The selection will take into account any additional information, especially from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, collected about the candidate craters. Topic: What -- Crater Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/LCROSS_Crater_candidates.html

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Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteriod Belt: If spacecraft are to visit the outer Solar System, they must cross the asteroid belt between Mars and Jpiter. The Pioneer mission was faced with the question of just how dangerous this astroid belt would be to a spacecraft passing throught it. Note: used in NASA SP-349 "Pioneer Odyssey - Encounter with a Giant" fig. 1-24 and SP-446 " Pioneer - First to Jupiter, Saturn, and Beyond" fig 1-24 Topics: What -- Pioneer 10, What -- Mars

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External Tank 130 arrives in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ET 130, which will be used on the Hubble servicing mission, STS-125, will be moved into a high bay for checkout. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller Dec. 4, 2008 Topics: Hubble, external tank, space shuttle, What -- STS-125, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where --... Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/08-12-4.html

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Nichelle Nichols attended a festive gala to celebrate Ames 70th anniversary on Jan. 23, 2010. Nichols played Lt. Uhura, fourth in command of the Starship Enterprise, in the legendary TV series Star Trek. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, her role became ''the first non-stereotypical role portrayed by a black women in television history.'' She successfully helped NASA recruit the first women and minority astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program, for which she received NASA's distinguished... Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC) Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/uhura.html

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On Feb. 16, 2010 NASA Ames Research Center hosted a media event about truck tests that were done in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex. In this shot, the smoke shows how air flows around the truck. Photo Credit: NASA Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC) Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/llnl_smoke_truck_test.html

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Photographer : JPL This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 270 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image. Data gaps are filled with Pioneer-Venus orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to inhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. Topics: What -- Venus, What -- Magellan, What -- Pioneer Venus Orbiter, What -- Venera 13, Where -- Jet...

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Space shuttle Discovery is silhouetted against Florida's pre-dawn, cloud-streaked sky as it makes the slow 3.4-mile trek to Launch Pad 39A. The shuttle travels atop the mobile launcher platform, which is moved by the massive crawler-transporter beneath. Discovery is targeted to launch on mission STS-119 to the International Space Station in February. During Discovery's 14-day mission, the crew will install the final truss segment and its solar arrays to the starboard side of the station. The... Topics: Discovery, space shuttle, STS-119, rollout, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Discovery, What... Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/09-01-14.html

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Jack Boyd recently celebrated his 63rd anniversary as an employee at NASA Ames Research Center. Boyd currently works as senior advisor to the Ames center director. In this photograph, taken in 1957, Jack Boyd explains the efficiencies of conical camber. Photo Credit: NASA Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC) Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/jack_boyd.html

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On Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 NASA Ames Research Center celebrated its 70-year anniversary with a parade of antique cars. Pete Worden gives a thumbs up as he gets into one of the classic cars for the parade. Photo Credit: NASA Topic: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC) Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/pete_worden_classic_car.html

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On Dec. 12, 2009, NASA Ames Research Center's Hangar N211 was transformed into the 'North Pole' for the annual Cops Care Cancer Foundation Christmas Fantasy Flight for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Topics: cancer, Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)

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Photographer: JPL P-34578 BW One of two new ring arcs, or partial rings, discovered by Voyager 2, is faintly visible just outside the orbit of the Neptunian moon 1989N4.The 155-second exposure taken by the spacecraft's narrow-angle camera shows the glare of an overexposed Neptune to the right of the moon and ring arc. The two bright streaks below the moon and ring arc are stars. The ring arc is approximately 50,000 kilometers (30,000 miles) long. The second ring arc, not apparent here, is about... Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Moon, What -- Neptune, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

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Ames Earth Resources project U-2 aircraft shot this oblique image off the coast of California, USA in 1972. The Golden Gate is in the foreground. As the image looks out across California the blue spot at the top enter is Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center Topics: What -- Earth, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- California, Where -- Nevada Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/earth_resources_project.html

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In the upper levels of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is moved toward high bay 3 where the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters are already stacked on the mobile launcher platform. Discovery is set to launch on mission STS-119 carrying the final starboard truss, S6, in the assembly of the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller Jan. 8, 2009 Topics: Discovery, STS-119, launch, space shuttle, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Discovery, What... Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/multimedia/images/09-01-08.html

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Photographer : JPL Range : 1 illion km. ( 600,000 mi. ) Resolution : 140 km. ( 90 mi. ) P-29539C This Voyager 2 image of Uranus was captured as the spacecraft was leaving Uranus behind on its cruise to Neptune. The image is a color composite of three photographs taken through blue, grren, and orange filters. Thin thin crecent seen here is at an angle of 153 degrees between the the spacecraft, the planet, and the sun. Even at this extreme angle, uranus retains the pale blue-green color seen by... Topics: What -- Voyager 2, What -- Uranus, What -- Neptune, What -- Sun, What -- Jupiter, What -- Saturn,...

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NASA's Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field, in California’s Silicon Valley. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics selected Ames to be its second aeronautical research laboratory on Dec. 20, 1939. Ames became part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) when that agency was formed in 1958. This shot shows NASA Ames' Building 17, which houses the NASA Lunar Science Institute with Hangar One in background at sunrise on Dec. 2, 2011. Photo Credit: NASA... Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2011/iotw/ames_lawn_hangar_one.html

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Dr. Norman Banks from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation gave a presentation at NASA Ames Research Center on Jan. 10, 2010 about the influence that Martin Luther King had on his life growing up in Los Angeles, Calif. Photo Credit: NASA Topics: Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- Los Angeles Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/mlk_2010.html

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Ames Earth Resources project U-2 aircraft shot this oblique image off the coast of California, USA in 1972. The Golden Gate is in the foreground. As the image looks out across California the blue spot at the top center is Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center Topics: Earth Resources Project, What -- Earth, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC), Where -- California,... Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2009/iotw/earth_resources_project.html

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Mark Leon, project manager of the Robotics Alliance Project, served as the master of ceremonies at the FIRST robotics competition on March 30, 2010 at the San Jose State University Event Center. This robot named Gizmo belongs to Team 254, the Cheesy Poofs. Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center / John Schultz Topics: Where -- San Jose, Where -- Ames Research Center ARC Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2010/iotw/cheesy_poofs.html

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Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) The spacecraft took this photo of the planet Jupiter on Jan 24, while still more than 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) away. As the spacecraft draws closer to the planet (about 1 million kilometers a day) more details are emergng in the turbulent clouds. The Great Red Spot shows prominently below center, surrounded by what scientists call a remarkably complex region of the giant planet's atmosphere. An elongated yellow cloud within the Great Red Spot is swirling... Topics: What -- Voyager 1, What -- Jupiter, What -- Ganymede, What -- Mercury, Where -- Jet Propulsion...